Lowell City Airport
24C · Lowell, Michigan · Kent County · map
Lowell City Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lowell, 1 mile north of Lowell, Michigan, 681 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 06/24, is 2,700 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 24C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lowell
- Elevation
- 681 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1946
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 2,700 × 100 ft | Grass, fair | |
| 12/30 | 2,394 × 48 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Low-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 1,940 × 100 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 06: threshold displaced 1,100 ft, trees on the approach
- Runway 24: threshold displaced 1,200 ft, trees on the approach
- Runway 12: tree 14 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 484 ft, building 12 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 15: threshold displaced 582 ft, tree on the approach
- Runway 33: threshold displaced 388 ft, tree 24 ft high 20 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Lowell from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Lowell, Michigan: 25 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd bfr 1959.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- No snow removal.
- No snow removal.
- 50 feet trees, 90 feet dist, 90 feet R; 6 feet fence, 0 feet dist, 125 feet R.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Approach ratio 22:1 to dthr based on straight out ovr 54 feet tree, 1225 feet dist.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Approach ratio 12:1 to dthr ovr 53 feet tree, 660 feet dist, 50 feet L.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.